I think a series would be interesting, but sadly I can already hear the haters and their uneducated remarks on how the show is copying the Hunger Games. Sad, but it's going to happen as long as there is stupid people in this world.

So am I safe to assume that the remake will sort of be like an Americanized version?

I just don't think that they'd be able to do the content justice, since the show would be on network TV. If it was a cable show, maybe, but even then, they'd wouldn't be able to replicate everything in Takami's novel or Fukusaku's film adaptation.

Oh surrrre Hunger Games became famous, and suddenly there is a huge interest in the former banned in North America movies.... I am glad it did become unbanned and a blu ray of the two movies came out, but I just hate the fact that they are pushing it out due to a similar title... As the Twilight example stands with all the vampire stuff that came out, I hope "group of kids in a secluded place that have to kill each other" won't become the next 'thing'.

This series if it was picked up by any other major network would probably have a chance of being quality and maybe keeping in the spirit of the original novel and film. But the CW is the melodramatic romance network (Gossip Girls, 90210, One Tree Hill, Gilmore Girls, etc.), this show if made will likely rely on the relationships of the novel/film.

Those relationships were interesting and carried the films' overarching message that theses kids would kill their best friends and people they're in love with unquestioningly just because the government and society told them to do it. But over course the director understood that the viewer also needed to be entertained by moving across various relationships throughout the film and also paying off with violence. But I can already see that a love triangle angle would appear out of nowhere.

But even me looking down on this project will say that if the show is actually made and read that it is actually good then I will give it a watch. My only hope is that the show can take a message of never question authority and expand it.

Well enough about that, time to watch The Wire, a great show.

This next part is a about who lives and dies in film and although it is vague, people who watched the film will understand my point. spoiler[I feel that the film succeeded in avoiding conflict that I expected from the beginning. I expected a couple would have to kill one another to survive at the end, this is actually shown but very briefly and it occurred in a previous Battle Royale class. I think that is the angle the show would rely on and build drama off of that.]

I just don't think that they'd be able to do the content justice, since the show would be on network TV. If it was a cable show, maybe, but even then, they'd wouldn't be able to replicate everything in Takami's novel or Fukusaku's film adaptation.

I would see such a project on HBO or Showtime, not Basic given the source material. Heck, i'm wondering how the hell they'll try and translate some of the students, like spoiler[Mitsuko's nymphomania/daddy issues/rape history], or spoiler[Kiriyama's slow descent into madness after the car accident/lobotomy.]

I think a series would be interesting, but sadly I can already hear the haters and their uneducated remarks on how the show is copying the Hunger Games. Sad, but it's going to happen as long as there is stupid people in this world.

So am I safe to assume that the remake will sort of be like an Americanized version?

It's not even that, it's just there's no way to do it. The only way it could possibly work is if it's a miniseries, or they do a "Total Drama" type thing where they have a new game every season.

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If it's on CW, it's usually a pass for me, but, as long as they actually attempt at doing it justice like a few series that did work on CW (Supernatural for one), then I MAY give it a shot, otherwise, not really holding my breath.

Nobody cares really if some people think that a BR remake copies Hunger Games.

A series would be damn interesting, especially if it is loosely based on the resource material (it wouldn't work otherwise, it has to be thoroughly localized imo). Social psychology is a subject that can give a lot of room for plot development ~ artistic expression, and projects like BR, Das Experiment, The Cube etc can attest to that.

Producer A: "Hunger Games is HOT, guys, we need more things like that!"

Producer B: "Hold on there, buddy, remember that Hollywood has a strict hiatus on doing anything original, even if it's a rip-off of something else!"

Producer A: "Drat! You're right!"

Producer C: "Guys, there's a loophole! There's a movie in Japan that's based on one of those weird mayn-ga books! And there's a novel too! It's like 'The Hunger Games', but darker, which means we can attract the scene and goth demographic of teenage girls!"

Producer A and B: "So we can be like 'Hunger Games', not come up with any new ideas, AND deliver an edgy reboot? Count us in!"

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